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'Waste as a Critique' reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial, and political forms....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Corvellec, Hervé (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Waste products > Philosophy.
Consumption (Economics) > Philosophy.
Déchets > Philosophie.
Société de consommation > Philosophie.
Consumer Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
The environment.
Environment and Ecology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Towards a Critical Waste-Based Epistemology
  • Herv Corvellec and David Bevan
  • Part I. Materiality
  • 2 Weaponizing Waste
  • Josh Lepawsky
  • 3 On the Socio-Material Practices of Leakage Control: Waste Infrastructures and Bodily Discharges
  • Jennie Olofsson
  • 4 From Thin to Thick Relationships with Objects: Constituting Subjectivity through Consumer-Object Folds
  • Taru Lehtokunnas and Elina Nfixed 7 ""00A8 arvfixed 7 ""00A8 anen
  • 5 Waste as Posthuman Critique
  • Olli Pyyhtinen, Alma Onali, and Stylianos Zavos
  • Part II. Society
  • 6 Feeding the Critique of Standards with Waste: Exclusion and Reactions in Food Systems
  • Nadine Arnold
  • 7 From Refuse to Refusal: Disrupting Racial Capitalism's Wasting Relations
  • Marisa Solomon
  • 8 Grassroots Social Innovation of Waste Pickers as Critique of the Existing Social Order
  • Jutta Gutberlet and Isabella de Carvalho Vallin
  • 9 A Critique of Heroic Efficacy
  • Herv Corvellec
  • Part III. Economy
  • 10 Waste as a Critique of the Concept of the Economy
  • Zsuzsa Gille
  • 11 Not at Our Disposal: Reclaimers' Critique of Disposability Capitalism
  • Melanie Samson
  • 12 Waste Commoning as Critical Answer to the Property Question
  • Patrik Zapata and Maria Jose Zapata Campos
  • 13 Mother Earth and Her Three Little Wasteful Pigs: Waste Reduction through Degrowth
  • Myra J. Hird and Gabriella Dee
  • Part IV. Temporality
  • 14 Waste, Temporalities, and Critique on Event-Based Environment Justice: A Political Ecology of Slow Violence of China's Production Wastescapes
  • Kun Wang and Raymond Yu Wang
  • 15 Waste and the Historical Future
  • Zachary Riebeling
  • 16 Wasting to Slow Down Time: The Paradox of Informational Waste
  • Dietmar Offenhuber
  • 17 Attempting to Waste Time: An Exploration of Freewheeling Creativity in Kitchens and Gaming Rooms
  • Kelly Alexander and Joshua O. Reno
  • Index